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The Growth of Awareness of Adult Illiteracy in BritainBy the Spring of 1977, Betty Cooper had been a volunteer with Amity Reading Clubs for nearly 3 years, when she started on an HNC course in Business Studies. As part of this course, she had to write an extended essay and asked Founding Organiser, Gladys Glascoe if she would advise on the project. The end result was a definitive review of the nature and extent of adult illiteracy in Britain in 1977/1978, including commentary of the funding regimes in place at that time. It also included insights into the operation and approach of some of the leading voluntary sector adult literacy schemes providing literacy tuiltion in London at that time, including ourselves. At that time, because of our links with the National Elfrida Rathbone Sociey, we operated as Rathbone Reading Clubs and that is the name by which we are referred to, throughout the extended essay. Towards the end of 1978, Elfrida Rathbone increased its emphasis on children, and so we changed our name to Amity Reading Clubs and registered ourselves as an independent charity. For some years it was thought that all copies of the document had been lost, but following a move to Whitstable, Betty found a faded photocopy. The document was scanned using OCR software, but given the poor condition of the original, it required major editing and reformatting to restore it. New introductions by Gladys Glascoe and Betty Cooper herself, have been added to put it into a current context. In additional to its interest as a historic snapshot, it also contains a series of interviews and case histories which are as relevant today, as the day they were written. The download is free, and we commend it to you.
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